196501-475415 FOI Environmental Protection

Short Description
Public Health Funerals Statistics
Reference number
FOI196501-475415
Date
11/04/2024
Request

Can you please list how many public health funerals (or so called “pauper” funerals) your council has organised, in the following years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Do you carry out an attended or unattended funeral?

Do you return ashes to family or friends if wished and, if so, under what circumstances?

If you do return ashes do you charge for that and how much?

What evidence do you require to carry out a burial, if that isn’t the default funerary method?